Walker X

Walker X is the third generation of UBTech's household and service humanoid, shown at the World AI Conference in Shanghai in 2021, and it is the machine that explains where the company's later industrial Walkers came from. It is deliberately small for a humanoid - 130 cm and 63 kg, roughly the size of a nine-year-old child - because it was designed to move through flats, hotel lobbies and showrooms rather than factory aisles, and a full-size body in those rooms is a hazard rather than an asset. The engineering answer to that brief is 41 servo joints driving the whole body, a walking system that adapts in real time to slopes of up to 20 degrees and stairs of up to 15 cm, and self-balancing that UBTech demonstrates by pushing the robot while it walks. Navigation runs on the company's U-SLAM stack, which builds its own map and plans routes without markers on the floor. Manipulation is hand-eye coordinated: the robot locates an object visually and adjusts the arm as it reaches, which is how the demonstration of pouring a drink and playing a board game is done rather than replayed from a script. The part visitors remember is the face. Walker X wears a dual flexible curved display wrapping 160 degrees around its head at 4.6K, plus a four-dimensional light system that signals state through colour and motion - an unusually explicit bet that a service robot is judged on how it communicates, not only on what it lifts. The body is modular and the battery is removable, so a unit can be serviced or topped up without going back to the maker. UBTech has never published a list price for Walker X, and the robot has stayed a flagship demonstration and commercial-deployment platform rather than a consumer product. Its practical importance is lineage: the whole-body control, the vision stack and the joint hardware proved here are what the company carried into Walker S1 and S2, the humanoids that went to work inside BYD and Foxconn plants.

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Walker X pokonuje schody - chod dostosowuje sie do stopni do 15 cm i pochylosci do 20 stopni

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